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999After-school Funding Reinstated in Senate Education Bill
Fear that after-school funding will die ebbed a bit as the U.S. Senate education committee affirmed its support for a major federal...
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815South LA High School Takes New Approach to Curbing Suspension Rates
When high school sophomore Mykia Moore got into an argument with her best friend over a boy last year at Augustus Hawkins...
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A Matter of Equity: Preschool in America
The U.S. Dept. of Education recently released this report which sheds light on the problem of unequal access to early childhood education....
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Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015
The Pew Research Center collected data and analyzed it to produce this report which provides a comprehensive and detailed look at the...
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566‘No Child’ Rewrite Shifts School Accountability to States, Does not Renew After-School Funding
A federal after-school program hangs in limbo as the Senate education committee forges ahead to rewrite “No Child Left Behind” — but...
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501Safe Housing for Youth, Other Factors Key to Beating Addiction
One of the biggest holes in the net of services to treat teens with addictions lies not in what happens during residential...
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1.4KGet the Big Picture When Seeking Funding: Create a Fiscal Map
The key reason an agency or community coalition does a fiscal map is “not to find huge pots of money that are...
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Child Mental Illness Widespread, yet Untreated
It’s no secret that young people with mental disorders are more likely to drop out of school, be arrested, experience homelessness and...
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1.8KSchools Remove Barriers to Mental Health Treatment
School-based health programs are teaming up with youth-development groups to deliver vital ongoing services to one group of vulnerable students: children with...
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894Spring Break Is No Picnic for Some Parents
When spring break rolls around, kids are delighted to have a vacation from school. But for working parents with limited time off,...
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2.2KTeens Work With Legislators to Bring Change
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate and the largest prison population of any country in the world. On any given day,...
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More Than a Salary: Summer Job Provides Important Lessons on Work and Life
When Myles Davis found out about Milwaukee’s Summer Youth Internship Program — a component of the Mayor’s Earn & Learn Program that...
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1.8KMilwaukee’s Summer Jobs Program Grows Despite Funding Falloff
When Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett calls local employers and foundation leaders to drum up support for “Earn & Learn” — a summer...
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1.5KWhy Should Cities Invest in After-school Programs? Five Mayors Explain
After-school programs are helping reduce gang activity, crime and child obesity, five mayors of U.S. cities said Tuesday at the National After-School...
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1.9KSocial Time Needs Good Social Media Policy
Wherever kids go today, social media goes, too. In fact, in a recent study by Common Sense Media, 41 percent of teens...
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Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2014 National Report
This report by the National Center for Juvenile Justice provides a nation-wide and comprehensive analysis of juvenile crime, victimization, and the juvenile...
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Campaign Pushes New York City to Hike Social Service Workers’ Pay to $15 an Hour
Frontline social service workers are often underpaid and don’t have opportunities for advancement. Now two New York City agencies are pushing the...
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974Vital Ingredient Missing in Children’s Lives: Nature
“The child in nature is an endangered species,” wrote Richard Louv. His 2005 book, “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children...
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1.1KWhat Happened to Summertime Play?
Cynthia Gentry, founder of the Atlanta Task Force on Play, remembers the summers of her childhood: She’d leave home in the morning...
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3.6KDocumentary on Homeless Teens in Chicago Aims to ‘Show the Struggle’
Think being a teenager was tough? Imagine going through that period without a steady roof over your head. That’s the tale that...
